#rents

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#front #happy #i #jury #lawyer

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#had #marriages #parents #them

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#child #heart #magic #mind #parents

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#buttons #hey #how #know #parents

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#because #both #college #degree #everyone

When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears. ↗

— Leslie Mann

#buy #cab #cookies #did #furniture

When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdad's Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis. ↗

— Danny Masterson

#car #city #crank #day #drove

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#college #finished #how #i #much

I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#adventurous #being #cases #daring #guess

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.' ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#call #company #daring #desire #everything